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-৬৪ । ६भ *ब्रिा5 have struck them that the people of Nawabganj were in need of a school. What did they do? They did not go to the Government and beg for a large amount of funds out of the public money with which the school might be erected; but they come forward with a generosity and public spirit which does them the highest honour. They said "We will do this for our friends & neighbours; we will found this school, and establish it among them that it may be for the lasting benefit of those among whom we ourselves have dealt” (Cheers). Now I can truly say that I derive the very greatest possible pleasure frem seeing two native gentlemen taking this course. I feel, as is well known, the deepest interest in the question of education and I desire to see education in all its branches spread more widely throughout the land in India. But we all know that education can not be supplied without funds, and no one who has attended to this subject at all can doubt that, if the education of the people of India were to be made complete and full, it would require an amount of money which it would alarm the boldest financier to contemplate. I find, ladies and gentlemen, that all people throughout the world have a great dislike of taxation. An English Statesman once spoke of the people of England as having what he called an ignorant impatience of taxation. (laughter.) Well, I always thought that was the characteristic of my countrymen ; but I must say that I do not know any people in the world who have a greater dislike of taxation than the "people of India (laughter), and I am quite sure that if